Color Reflection Paper

When I was a child, my view on segregation was very limited to what my parents saw. During that time, to my knowledge everyone was equal to everyone. The color black was a simply a skin color vs. racial inequality. However, as I became older my eyes slowly unraveled how crooked the world really is and or was at that time. As a white child, growing up in a suburban neighborhood within a very conservative household, I was an easy target to be a convict of being racial. Being that young and immature, I could not simply grasp the fact that African Americans were looked at as if they were the problem. The people that were within my friend consisted on the type of person you are, not the skin color. However, while my viewpoint of black and white

During that time the racial tension between white and black was higher than any time before. Also, Civil Rights movements began to form. These movements consisted of men, women and children coming together to form an alliance against segregation. One of the segregation practices consisted of the segregation of buses, this caused an uproar in every citizen. For the longest time people looked as whites being a minority over blacks, when in reality most of the wealthiest men during the 1960s were predomemtly black men. This was one of the major setbacks that really was not show to light during the racial tensions. However, one major movement, one person, one leader, led all African Americans to victory with one speech. This became the beginning on the war against

changed the lives of every African American. By doing this, he gathered over 250,000 people of every skin color to deliver his legendary “I have a dream” speech. This speech was delivered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. The ultimate goal of this speech was to inform every one of the importance of equality, and the wrongfulness of segregation, and to respect any man of any color, but to also describe his dream of what the American dream should be. By doing so, he delivered his speech in person, and used a bank as his analogy of segregation, in hopes to fill the gap between racial brutality and “all men are created equal”. The following piece of Martin Luther’s speech is one of the most influential and strongly conveys people with his analogy of banks “But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we 've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.” As Martin Luther delivers his speech he does so in an aggressive but non violent way. Some may have even found his speech offensive, however this does not affect the overall intensions of his